samba - Sep 1998 - SAMBA digest 1809

Richard L Hoesly <Rich-Hoesly@uai.com> writes:
> Try looking at a backup package called AMANDA. It if free and
> has a great support structure much like SAMBA.
Thanks for the ad :-)
> Home page is at www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/amanda.html.
Please refer to it as www.amanda.org, it's easier to remember :-)
> I use if for all my UNIX and PC's and it works great.
Unfortunately, not that well for M$Window.  Due to SAMBA limitations
(or should I say M$Windows limitations :-), it is impossible to back
up system disks, for example: smbclient can't back up locked files
such as the system registry and PAGEFILE.SYS (but why would you want
to back up a swap area, anyway? :-)

But it's great for backing up data disks, except that it won't back up
access control lists: you need a special proprietary tool, distributed
with the MS Network Resource Kit, that dumps the ACL information to a
file, which can then be backed up with Amanda+SAMBA.  There's another
tool that will dump registry information to a file, so that it can
also be backed up.


My general advice is: if you can, set up all your data and application
servers in Linux boxes with SAMBA, and forget about backing up
M$Windows clients.  If anything goes wrong with them, it's much easier
to reinstall the system from scratch and update its configuration from
a working host with sysdiff.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:aoliva@acm.org
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

> From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
> To: "Samba Mailing List (E-mail)" <samba@samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: smbtar multiple machines
> Message-ID: <01BDDD6E.ABFF0580@garys.computer.leeds>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just looking at using smbtar to backup the Win95 PC's on my
network, and would like usability ideas please.
>
> The tape drive I intend to use is in our RS6000 and has a capacity of 20GB
before compression which means that I will be able to fit plenty of PC's
onto one tape as all the PC's have <3GB HD's on them.
>
> The problem I have is how do I get multiple tar's onto one tape?  I
could tar them all to disk, and then put them all onto tape as one big tar file
but then I would need 20+GB of disk space which would be expensive and wasteful.
>
> The tapes are #50 each, so I don't want to do 1PC -> 1 tape (also
unattended backups would be impossible).
>
> If possible I would like the backup of the PC's to be tagged onto the
end of the backup of the RS.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
Try looking at a backup package called AMANDA. It if free and

has a great support structure much like SAMBA. It runs on UNIX and

will automatically invoke SAMBA to back up PC's. It will do

Full or Incremental backups and automatically figures out what to

do to average tape utilization over a period of days. Has lots of

other bells and whistles to.

Home page is at www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/amanda.html.

I use if for all my UNIX and PC's and it works great.

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> From: "Norm Long" <nlong@worldvision.org>
> HP-UX 10.20 machine without much success....
>can from Hosea do a smbclient -L hosea and see a list of available shares
>for Hosea.   But when I go to explorer and the domain I placed Hosea in I
>don't see Hosea as an server, nor do I see it when I do a net view from
my
>nt workstation with no options.
>can't get the nmbd process to start......
/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D -N <SUBNETMASK> -n <MachineName> -I
<IPaddr>

Verify that the subnet mask is appropriate.   If the "hosea" server is
on a
different remote
subnet -- separate from your workstations, then call microsoft.
> My other request is regarding the latest version of Samba for hp-ux 10.20,
> can anyone tell me where I can get latest version in swinstall format?
At work, we have version .15 and we are doing just fine with NT workstations
(with the registry workaround).
Call HP and they have a product that provides the exact same functionality and

comes in a swinstall format.

Sarma

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